The Sky is Falling (1999)

A young woman struggling to become a novelist has her life go into a tailspin Her first novel is rejected her noncommittal boy friend decides to take a powder her best friend moves to Mexico for an acting job and her mother announces that her long presumed dead father is actually a hippie photographer who has come to town to meet her Sinking into a depression at being a total failure at 28 she starts fantasizing about suicide In her depths of despair she meets various eccentric characters including a chainsmoking Santa Claus and an obnoxious literary agent But her belief in herself is only restored when she meets a patient in a hospital where she does volunteer work